On Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 03:23:51PM +0900, Michael Glaesemann wrote:
> My personal opinion on this is that there are a lot of different
> ideas about how the XML should/could be written, and a the current
> output can be piped to a script in <insert favorite scripting
> language here> to format to match anyone's wish. Rather than have
> psql decree the one and true format or include so many as to make
> maintainability burdensome, further formatting is best left to the
> end user.
IMHO, we should look for an OpenDocument like standard for spreadsheets
and/or tables. If you pick something like that then you have a higher
chance it can be imported directly into applications, which at the end
of the day is what people want, right?
Have a nice day,
--
Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org> http://svana.org/kleptog/
> Patent. n. Genius is 5% inspiration and 95% perspiration. A patent is a
> tool for doing 5% of the work and then sitting around waiting for someone
> else to do the other 95% so you can sue them.
